REQUIREMENTS PRE-INSTALL POST-INSTALL In order to use the QEMU Accelerator Module, first enable /dev/shm in /etc/fstab. This is the area kqemu uses for the virtual machine RAM. devfs users ----------- To get the /dev/kqemu node, add the following lines to /etc/devfsd.conf: LOOKUP ^kqemu$ EXECUTE /bin/mknod -m 0666 $devpath c 250 0 After this you need to load the kqemu kernel module either in /etc/rc.modules or manually. udev users ---------- When using udev, the device node is created automatically; add the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules to allow all users of group 'qemu' use kqemu: KERNEL="kqemu", MODE="0660", GROUP="qemu" Loading the kqemu kernel module is done like in devfs except you have to use major=0 as a parameter for the module (i.e. "modprobe kqemu major=0"). This will cause the major number to be assigned dynamically. PRECAUTION